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Your Social Media “Friends” Could Be Social Media Scammers

In February I wrote a blog titled “Sidestep Social Media Scams in 2022.”  In it, I highlighted social media scams involving cryptocurrency, email phishing, and clickbait.  Two weeks ago, RB’s Computer Service foiled a...

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Cryptocurrency Risks for Beginners

By October 2017, a cryptocurrency called One Coin accumulated around $17 billion in value.  Then One Coin’s founder went missing.   Investors soon found out One Coin was not a cryptocurrency at all.  They were duped by a...

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Replace Windows 7 buying a refurbished computer with Windows 10 on it

Every week at RB’s Computer Service we come across a local business running Windows 7 experiencing some type of issue.  Most people have heard Microsoft discontinued Windows 7 updates (both for security and functionality, click here to...

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Protect Against VoIP Phone Malware Attack

Businesses that upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 over the last few years, combined with employees working from home due to COVID more recently, have triggered many businesses to also upgrade their business phone service from landlines to VoIP...

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New Laptop but Slow WiFi? We have a solution

  With so many people working from home due to COVID-19, we have had a number of people contact RB’s Computer Service complaining their new or “newer” work laptop is “very slow” when using it to work from...

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Time to Replace the Sticky Note for a Password Manager

I think everyone has jotted down a new password on a sticky note or scratch piece of paper, like for online banking, or when setting up a new account.  Then, sometime later you need to log-in and find you misplaced the sticky note and need to...

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Sync Work from Home with Office Network

Due to the COVID shutdown, many employees and small business owners are working from home.  When “Stay-at-Home” was implemented, most business owners and their employees scrambled to continue operating key functions of their...

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Speed-Up Your PC with a Solid State Drive

Solid-state drive (SSD) installation has grown more popular in the "Want It Now" age.  The super-portable form factor has revolutionized expandable storage. It also makes it easier for users to boot up without having to wait a century...

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Speed Up Your PC with a Solid State Drive

Solid-state drive (SSD) installation has grown more popular in the "Want It Now" age.  The super-portable form factor has revolutionized expandable storage. It also makes it easier for users to boot up without having to wait a century...

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Phishing Scam Prevention 101

According to Verizon, 30% of phishing messages get opened by targeted users.  In 2018, experts predicted phishing scams would cause damages exceeding $9 billion. This is a huge increase from the $5.3 billion in damages that occurred in...

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